Ghana gets new housing policy

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• Jak Obetsebi Lamptey 10 years ago

  Npp lets help this goverment till 2020 afterall they have good ideas to develop this country,

  Npp lets help this goverment till 2020 afterall they have good ideas to develop this country,

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• Close Observer 10 years ago

  ''We have been vice presidents for far too long, it is time you make ONE OF YOUR OWN president''- John Mahama.
  WHAT ARE THE REST OF US TO THE DEAD GOAT?
  WE NEED SENSIBLE AND EXPERIENCE PEOPLE TO LEAD GHANA. VOTE THE USELESS ...
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  ''We have been vice presidents for far too long, it is time you make ONE OF YOUR OWN president''- John Mahama.
  WHAT ARE THE REST OF US TO THE DEAD GOAT?
  WE NEED SENSIBLE AND EXPERIENCE PEOPLE TO LEAD GHANA. VOTE THE USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016. MAHAMA DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING AT THE PRESIDENCY. HE IS ONLY CELEBRATING HIS POSITION LIKE A MOVIE ACTOR. VOTE HIM OUT IN 2016.

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• Man of Character 10 years ago

  Who are you? Come again! Which Party? The Party that can't pay workers and pensioners? Ok, 2016 will come and we shall see who's who. Is it not because of 2016 elections that they are making all these noise just to attract at ...
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  Who are you? Come again! Which Party? The Party that can't pay workers and pensioners? Ok, 2016 will come and we shall see who's who. Is it not because of 2016 elections that they are making all these noise just to attract attention and then they will tell you "Yentie Obiara, Oguanfun, If the kitchen is hot, you can take your Passport and go away, etc etc. Who will vote for NDC, the Dumsor Party, SADA Party etc etc. We are fed up with that Party.

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  more paperwork with no true results , after the policy there will be a master plan , after the master plan they will say feasibility study and after that environmental or social impact study , then they will say revamp the ur ...
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  more paperwork with no true results , after the policy there will be a master plan , after the master plan they will say feasibility study and after that environmental or social impact study , then they will say revamp the urban plan , bullshit after bullshit

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• copper 10 years ago

  I find this analysis to be bogus.
  Ghana is not a static state where a housing deficit of 1.7m have been trumpeted for over a year.
  Do we grow as a nation? If we do then why are we fixated with the figure 1.7m as our housi ...
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  I find this analysis to be bogus.
  Ghana is not a static state where a housing deficit of 1.7m have been trumpeted for over a year.
  Do we grow as a nation? If we do then why are we fixated with the figure 1.7m as our housing deficit. The mockery of it all is when politicians believe that after building 1.7m houses in 10 years the problem will be solved.
  What this thinking lack is whether there will be fresh and new requirements for houses in the next 10 years and not captured. So the vicious cycle of deficit will be endless. Are there any strategicanalysts in there? Oh Ghana

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• Aduana Atwea 10 years ago

  Talk is cheap. NDC abandoned the construction of all the affordable housing projects started by the NPP. Find out for yourselves, Kumasi and Accra has the bulk of these projects, they are now uncompleted high rise apartment / ...
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  Talk is cheap. NDC abandoned the construction of all the affordable housing projects started by the NPP. Find out for yourselves, Kumasi and Accra has the bulk of these projects, they are now uncompleted high rise apartment /condominium buildings which are now occupied by local drug dealers and robbers. Use your critical thinking, talk is cheap. It's all about cheap talk for 2016.

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• abfi 10 years ago

  There is nothing new and sensible in the housing policy. NDC promised to force land lords to reduce to long advance period fees that land lords charge but have done nothing so far. If we reduce the long advance fees many will ...
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  There is nothing new and sensible in the housing policy. NDC promised to force land lords to reduce to long advance period fees that land lords charge but have done nothing so far. If we reduce the long advance fees many will rent and not sleep rough on the street

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• Nunu 10 years ago

  This unfortunate government cannot be trusted.
  All those who follow are either chopping with them or plain dumb.

  This unfortunate government cannot be trusted.
  All those who follow are either chopping with them or plain dumb.

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• Contemporary Youth 10 years ago

  Ms Abena Ntori, a Representative of the UN-Habitat, said the launch of the Policy was timely at a period where sustainable housing was just yet to gain prominence in Ghana, while decent and safe housing remained a dream for t ...
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  Ms Abena Ntori, a Representative of the UN-Habitat, said the launch of the Policy was timely at a period where sustainable housing was just yet to gain prominence in Ghana, while decent and safe housing remained a dream for the majority of the population, especially the urban poor.
  
  She said the need to construct more housing units had become more critical because the phenomenon of climate change had come to stay, given that the housing sector alone was responsible for nearly 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in cities.
  
  She said a better housing and slum upgrading would, therefore, contribute to reducing social inequalities and improving urban safety and quality of life, through their socio-economic and spatial impacts.

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• mr amin 10 years ago

  Complete the nation wide affordable housing project n stop talking. n with the depreciation of the cedi no fund will achieve its goal. Anything that loses value will cease to a axit.

  Complete the nation wide affordable housing project n stop talking. n with the depreciation of the cedi no fund will achieve its goal. Anything that loses value will cease to a axit.

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• nana nkrumah 10 years ago

  You failed to tell us what a exactly is the policy only praising the signing and saying he said he said and she said she said ///// he said what ? Your article is uselss

  You failed to tell us what a exactly is the policy only praising the signing and saying he said he said and she said she said ///// he said what ? Your article is uselss

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• Kwabena 10 years ago

  Nothing you do can be trusted.

  Nothing you do can be trusted.

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• copper 10 years ago

  Ghana lacks strategic analysts.
  It's a big shame.
  So so talk shop from both giants.
  They are a disgrace ooooo tom.

  Ghana lacks strategic analysts.
  It's a big shame.
  So so talk shop from both giants.
  They are a disgrace ooooo tom.

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• The mask 10 years ago

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• OKOE 10 years ago

  WHILE WE ARE AT IT, REMEMBER THAT THE HOUSES WILL REQUIRE INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS WATER, POWER, ROADS, SCHOOLS ETC. SO, GET THE PLANNING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE
  BEFORE THE HOUSING. FOR EXAMPLE, PROVISION OF WATER MAINS, SCHOOLS ...
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  WHILE WE ARE AT IT, REMEMBER THAT THE HOUSES WILL REQUIRE INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS WATER, POWER, ROADS, SCHOOLS ETC. SO, GET THE PLANNING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE
  BEFORE THE HOUSING. FOR EXAMPLE, PROVISION OF WATER MAINS, SCHOOLS AND ROADS HAVE TO BE THE FIRST STAGES IN THE HOUSING PROJECTS. SOMEONE SAID THERE ARE WATER HYDRANTS FOR FIRE PROTECTION IN ACCRA. I DO NOT SEE WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED. WITHOUT WATER HYDRANTS, FIRE FIGHTING IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY. PLANNING, PLANNING AND PLANNING IS THE KEY TO DEVELOPMENT OF ANY COMMUNITY.

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• yussif 10 years ago

  We ve all this blue print on the drawing board already started by our first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah and later General Acheampong who was killed by Mr Rawlings.Now no country is developed by the state alone but policies hav ...
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  We ve all this blue print on the drawing board already started by our first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah and later General Acheampong who was killed by Mr Rawlings.Now no country is developed by the state alone but policies have, you count the houses on each Street and tell me how many is own by government, even the small regulatory roll given to various institutions to check encroachment in to roads and railway lines ve failed, we re a nation of jokers and talkatives.Now that we re in power crisis and ghacem is not producing full capacity and prices up, you wait and see when the problem is solve to see if cement price ll come down, it has happened in the past because politicians ll go for bribes and allow them to cheat poor Ghanaians.So how do you expect quality and beautiful building or affordable buildings?we re enemies to our own country, it's so painful if you travel abroad and see how structures re so organize, water bodies flowing fresh and modern trains, you ask yourself if John Mahama has a dream,i ask incase we decide to ve bullet trains where is the land to do so? Common buses the state can not afford for STC to operate effectively.Go to Osu the middle of our capital and see the kind of wooden houses there, I'll advice government to negotiate with landlords and build sky scrappers and give some floors to the original owners and rent the rest and see if Accra ll devolope or not,infact they should start with just one community.Even Tema look at the type of home they built at commity 3 and sakumono.Allah help our vision less governments.

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• ALL CHOP BE CHOP 10 years ago

  Where is the policy in this article?
  national housing fund is an initiative
  not a policy. A policy is when the law says if you can afford to build a house that cost millions, you should afford to build a drainage front of ...
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  Where is the policy in this article?
  national housing fund is an initiative
  not a policy. A policy is when the law says if you can afford to build a house that cost millions, you should afford to build a drainage front of your house. A policy is that every landlord should provide a latrine for their tenants. You need to go back to school.

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